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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - usually representing a subproject or work package.






2. Management methodology for integrating scope - schedule and resources and for objectively measuring project performance and progress. performance is measured by determining the budgeted cost of work performed (earned value) and comparing it to the ac






3. Defined function to be performed by a project team member






4. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity






5. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities






6. Condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system - product - service result or component to satisfy a contract - standard - specification or other formally imposed document.






7. A request - demand or assertion of rights by a seller against a buyer or vice versa for consideration - compensation - or payment under the terms of a legally binding contract (such as for a disputed change)






8. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints






9. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






10. Processes required to manage the timely completion of a project






11. A point in time associated with schedule activity's completion.






12. Document that establishes criteria and activities for developing and controlling the project schedule






13. Deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables






14. Calculation of the early start and early finish dates for the uncompleted portions of all network activities






15. Processes involved in estimating - budgeting - and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget






16. Analytical technique that uses three cost or duration estimates to represent optimistic - most likely and pessimistic scenarios.






17. Collection of schedule activity dependencies that makes up a project schedule network diagram






18. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






19. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity maybe completed based upon schedule network logic - the completion date and any constraints assigned to the schedule activities without violating a schedule constraint or delaying the project






20. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






21. Processes required to track - review and regulate the progress and performance of the project - identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required and initiate the corresponding changes.






22. Provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and or schedule risk. modifier: management reserve (unknown risks) - contingency reserve (known - but unplanned risks)






23. Buyer pays the seller a set amount (as defined by the contract) and the seller can earn an additional amount if the seller meets defined performance criteria






24. Structure in which the project manager has full authority to assign priorities - apply resources and direct the work of persons assigned to the project






25. Risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response






26. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy






27. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts






28. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






29. Document describing how roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships and staffing management will be addressed and structured for the project






30. Aggregation of the processes - tools - techniques - methodologies - resources and procedures to manage a project






31. Collect project performance data with respect to a plan - produce performance measures and report and disseminate performance information






32. Processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies - objectives and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken






33. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity






34. Subdivision of a phase






35. Approved specific version of the detailed scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) and its associated WBS dictionary






36. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






37. Determining which risks may affect the project and documenting their characteristics






38. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






39. Members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities






40. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






41. A group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually.






42. Document that provides for common and repeated use - rules - guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results






43. Point in time that work was scheduled to finish on a schedule activity. called planned finish date






44. Structure in which the project manager shares responsibility with the functional managers for assigning priorities and directing the work of persons assigned to the project






45. Any item - internal or external - that is required by a process before that process proceeds






46. Describes when and how human resource requirements will be met






47. One of the defining points of a schedule network; a junction point joined to some or all of the other dependency lines






48. Narrative description of products - services or results






49. Deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






50. Tracking - reviewing - regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan